Jan 5, 2009

Posted by PSwish in Photoshop Tutorials | 19 Comments

Oily and Shinny Text Effect in Photoshop

OK, here is a text effect I came up with yesterday while making some crappy design and since it turned out pretty nice, I decided to make a tut about it. So, we will be making this nice oily text:

So, start off by making a new canvas, and fill it with a dark background colour, we used black.

type the word u like… we used customized GauFont PopMagic.

go to layer >> layer styles >> blending options, and set the following settings:

  • Inner Shadow

  • Inner Glow

and also…

  • Bevel and Emboss

  • Contour Line Inside

  • Contour

  • Satin

  • Colour Overlay

After all these settings, u will have this:

Now, duplicate your layer.

Select the upper (copied) layer and go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur, and apply THIS BLUR

Reduce the opacity of the blurred layer to about 70%.

That’s it, hope u like the result, please post any questions u have!

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  1. HI IT WAS AND GOOD TEXT IT VERY ATTRACTIVE AND IT IS GOOD TEACHING PURPOSE &GOOD FOR THE LEARN
    THIS OF TEXT

  2. Thank you, nice design

  3. muy buen tutorial ;)
    es genial !!
    un bes00tte de BCN :D

  4. George of the Jungle says:

    I could not get the shiny effect either but did have fun… missing the oily part :-)
    Could be something to do with the layer styles settings I suppose.

  5. Where are you stuck, BIKRAM?

  6. steps are not so easy i am unable to underland

  7. I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.

  8. Hello foreign friends,

    There is no word in the English language as ’shinny’ . There is however ’shiny’ pronounced ’shy-knee’. It means to shine. Good-day.

  9. estan fabulosos esos efectos sabes no se como le haces pero me quedan igualtis

  10. I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.

  11. Hi,
    This is Ruturaj i wanted to know how to create a animation like this would u tell me how to do it…..

    Image Link:
    http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq282/Ruturaj02/65.gif

  12. Hi – I have a general question regarding test effects – what is the general rule for print – Do text effects print well or there are some guidelines to follow?
    Thanks

  13. Thanks, really great and easy to follow tutorial!!!
    I am just starting to learn in photoshop, and i am realy happy that i found this forum.

    I tried out two of text effects- was trying to get some black petroleum effect, but could not make it shiny
    http://lf.times.lv/melna%20elja.jpg

  14. wo that are great and so special … thank you so much

  15. Hi everybody
    im new but ive been doing some of the
    tuts for some time now
    this is what i got
    but somehow it
    didnt come out the same
    im going to try a different font though
    http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y190/peeweesbabygirl/070308-1.jpg

  16. The Photoshop version does not matter as you just apply the settings, nothing else needed.

  17. This font style is for P.SHOP 7.0 or ?

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